Primary Energy and Transportation Fuels and the Energy and Water Nexus: Ten Challenges

Issue Brief
Mar 27, 2025

Canada needs an economic statecraft strategy to address its vulnerabilities

By
Kimberly Donovan, Maia Nikoladze, Lize de Kruijf

To address threats from Russia and China and reduce trade overdependence on the United States, Canada’s federal government will need to consolidate economic power and devise an economic statecraft strategy that will leverage Canada’s economic tools to mitigate economic threats and vulnerabilities.

China
Cybersecurity

Primary Energy and Transportation Fuels and the Energy and Water Nexus: Ten Challenges

Issue Brief
Mar 26, 2025

Trade with Colombia is big business for US exporters—amid growing Chinese influence in Latin America

By
Geoff Ramsey, Enrique Millán-Mejía

The United States maintains a trade surplus with Colombia, which is also the top destination for US agricultural exports in South America. However, growing Chinese influence and political tensions threaten the bilateral relationship. To protect mutual economic interests, the United States can leverage diplomatic channels and private sector engagement.

Colombia
Economy & Business

Primary Energy and Transportation Fuels and the Energy and Water Nexus: Ten Challenges

Report
Apr 16, 2025

Navigating the US-PRC tech competition in the Global South

By
Cole McFaul, Peter Engelke

A landscape report analyzing China’s strategic tech engagements with the Global South and how the US can compete.

Africa
Artificial Intelligence

Content

Issue Brief

Nov 10, 2011

Primary Energy and Transportation Fuels and the Energy and Water Nexus: Ten Challenges

By Blythe Lyons

The Atlantic Council released an issue brief by Blythe Lyons, nonresident senior fellow of the Energy and Environment Program, entitled: “Primary Energy and Transportation Fuels and the Energy and Water Nexus: Ten Challenges,” which highlights the issues that were brought to light in the November 2011 workshop. Download the PDF

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment
3D Printing

Issue Brief

Oct 17, 2011

Could 3D printing change the world?

By Thomas Campbell, Christopher Williams, Olga Ivanova, and Banning Garrett

Could 3D Printing Change the World? Technologies, Potential, and Implications of Additive Manufacturing explores the technology of AM and its broader implications.

Technology & Innovation

Report

Oct 13, 2011

Georgia in the West: A Policy Road Map to Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic Future

On October 13, the Atlantic Council Task Force on Georgia, co-chaired by Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lindsey Graham, released a major new report on Georgia at an event held on Capitol Hill, arguing for intensified domestic reform and a new sense of common purpose and clarity from the United States and Europe to work toward […]

European Union International Organizations

Issue Brief

Sep 21, 2011

US Declaratory Policy and Striking Back in Cyber Conflict

By Jason Healey

In one of the year’s most poorly understood bit of cyber news, the United States has again announced it may use military force in response to a cyber attack. In a new publication, Jason Healey, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, puts this cyber “declaratory policy” into the proper context, both how it fits […]

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Sep 15, 2011

How reliable is intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program?

By Barbara Slavin

At a public event on September 15, the Atlantic Council’s Iran Task Force launched the issue brief How Reliable is Intelligence on Iran’s Nuclear Program? authored by Task Force member Barbara Slavin.

Intelligence Iran

Issue Brief

Sep 13, 2011

Pursuing Cyber Statecraft

By Jason Healey

If the world is going to solve problems of cooperation and conflict in cyberspace, states and non-state actors alike must apply a wider range of tools.  Cyber statecraft will be an important way to discover and implement better set of such tools, writes Jason Healey, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Download the PDF

Cybersecurity Security & Defense

Report

Sep 7, 2011

Nordic-Baltic Security in the 21st Century

The Atlantic Council today released “Nordic-Baltic Security in the 21st Century: The Regional Agenda and the Global Role,” a compendium of issue briefs on a range of topics related to Nordic-Baltic security, including NATO’s role in the region, energy security, and how the region can play a larger role in the transatlantic community in concert […]

Northern Europe

Issue Brief

Sep 1, 2011

Learning from Libya: The right lessons for NATO

By Damon M. Wilson

“While NATO’s ‘Operation Unified Protector’ has revealed strains within the Alliance and foreshadows future challenges, the Libya operation is a great success.”  That is the conclusion of Atlantic Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson in his Strategic Advisors Group issue brief, released as leaders of the Transitional National Council meet today in Paris with leading […]

Libya NATO
Nuclear ICBM

Issue Brief

Aug 30, 2011

Future options for NATO nuclear policy

By Jeffrey A. Larsen

The United States has maintained forward-deployed nuclear weapons in Europe for more than six decades. That may soon come to an end, argue Dr. Jeffrey A. Larsen, a retired Air Force command pilot and expert on arms control, in his Atlantic Council issue brief “Future Options for NATO Nuclear Policy.”  Unless current trends are altered, […]

Europe & Eurasia NATO

Issue Brief

Aug 16, 2011

Energy in Food

By Boyko Nitzov

In this latest Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Issue Brief “Energy in Food”, Boyko Nitzov, the Center’s Director of Programs, surveys current concerns about the large amounts of energy needed to supply food and explores common concepts, perceptions and myths.Download the PDF

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
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